Sunday, March 15, 2009

Discovery

One of the most incredible things about living in South Florida are the shuttle launches.  From our house, we can see the shuttle in the Northeast sky 1 minute and 10 secs after launch from the Kennedy Space center.

The coolest launches are the night launches...the sky just erupts like fire!

Tonight, just a few minutes ago Discovery was launched...1 min and 10secs later, it lit up our sky.  It was just after sunset, so not as spectacular as a night launch, but still enough to watch the fireball and see that huge contrail from the earth to the edge of space. 

I never tire of sights such as this.


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4 comments:

  1. LisaMarch 15, 2009 at 11:21 PM

    I'm so mad I did not realize it was launching tonight to go out & see it... I heard it but thought it was an airplane going over-head at first as we live near Venice airport (though then realized it was not & did not realize until I heard about it that must have been the shuttle!)

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  2. Mary JohnsonMarch 16, 2009 at 1:02 AM

    We watched it on TV. I was actually flying in a plane one day and we saw a launch. The pilot came on and told us to look out the window....very cool.

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  3. zizzybobMarch 16, 2009 at 9:25 AM

    We saw it too, I never get tired of seeing that orange ball in the sky. I am so glad it was a clear evening.

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  4. Deb GeyerMarch 16, 2009 at 11:33 AM

    That must be spectacular!!

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